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PApE EIGHT MARCH 6. 1'!:t3 Horner recital a success Mimists return by\Sue Stalker melodic tempo to a crescendo thus introducing the on Friday M~!ert~:~~~~ a~~dLfs~~o:~~t p~~~i~t~J ~;~~:a~ Horner at her senior recital for the piano on Friday, Menuet movement. The mood was both lively and February 23. dischordant. Finally, the Anime was accented by "Mimes and Pantomines" will be presented Particularly impressive was the "Hungarian the combination of the Menuet and the repetitive Friday, March 9, at Western Maryland College in Rhapsody, No.6, in D Flat Major," by Liszt. This Modere which gave the audience a feel for the Alumni HaU. piece was masterfully performed and the most music and showed the brilliance of this well in- Bert Houle and Sophie Wibaux, artists in difficult of the evening. It combined "alternation of tergrated work. , residence at Baltimore's Center Stage, will per- contrasting moods and rapid changes of tempo, Mozart's "Sonata, A Minor, K. 310," his "most form at 8:15 p.m. on the Mainstage. The public is rhythm, and dynamics". The audience seemed to , dramatic" sonata, is a very resplendent work. Miss invited without charge. enjoy this piece immensely and applauded with Horner provided the audience with a magnlficient The two artists have been performing for the past great vigor at its conclusion. contrasting piece written in Mozart's "key of year at schools and shopping centers throughout "Les Niais de Sologne" by Rameau was written . despair". The audience responded t.othis piece with Maryland. Some of their numbers have obvious originally for the clavier. A very short piece, it keen concentration as the majestic Allegro was messages, others are pure fun. The two are prac- required great concentration and a great deal of played. The second movement was a truly skillful titioners of an art form seldom seen anywhere in work to obtain the misleading title of the "Sim- representation of a slow melody which suggested a the world performed with a high degree of skill. The pletons of Sologne". song. It was surprising to note that this second husband and wife team met in Paris where both The favorite of the evening was Ravel's movement ended so abruptly as if the composer studied with Etienne Decroux, teacher of Marcel "Sonatine". The three movements were in- had run out of ideas with which to express his Marceau. Houle, a native of New Hampshire, was tertwined by the repetition of the first two despair. The final movement of this piece was on a Fulbright scholarship. movements in the third unifying the work. The spectacular because it embodied the rapid tempo of Mime is an ancient art form ana was present in Modere, or first movement, combined a slow, the Presto and ended similarly as a piece by prehistoric times. It is considered esoteric and Beethoven. stylized by some but Houle and Wibaux feel it is The final pieces by Listz were very impressive universal and timeless. Mime grew and developed L beraf,'on cours e but sounded more like the bangtngs of children. The among the early Greeks. It can be simply defined "Concert Etude in D Flat, (Un Sospiro)," required as a silent form of the drama in which the play is " great skill which Miss Horner promptly displayed. S a ' f . .In this piece, she used the entire keyboard to "run developed by movement, gesture, and facial ex- pression. h k es conv,c ,on Sup and down the scale." Likewise, she brought the Bert Houle says that there is a difference between piece to crescendo proportions followed by a lull, mime and pantomime. "Put very simply," he says, (continued from page 7) which showed the variety in Liszt's music. The "pantomime is usually lighthearted and comic jumped over the counter and grabbed the little "Sonetto de la Petrarch No. 123," began forcefully whereas mime is often more serious. In pantomime man. 'Damn it,' I said, 'There are Indians waiting with a simple melody intertwined with simple, one a story is told with gestures of the hands and ex- for your coffee break to end. I want the lease now, note starts. The very harsh, discordant piece rose pressions of the face. Illusions of material objects you son of a bitch, or I am going to smash you right to crescendo after crescendo followed by complete are, created ...There is a clear story line ...Mime here,' I never saw anybody so scared in my life. We lulls throughout, but ended in an artistic yet dif- .today tends to be more abstract. It uses the whole got our lease in half an hour. ficult melody. body and often shares common ground with modern "Today we're tired of waiting, tired of being Miss Horner provided a superb representation of dance. There is less dependence on facial ex- .patient, tired of cooperating. Indians dropouts are the artists and deserved a hand for a job well done. pressions. Mime is more symbolic." twice the national average. Fifty thousand Indian families live in huts, shanties, and abandoned automobiles. There is 40% more unemployment among Indians than any other minority. Life ex- pectancy is 44 years. We have double the average infant mortality rate, too. We are starting to feel that we will have to fight back. It seems that Junior follies cast chosen changes only come through confrontations. I would hope, however, that education can bring change also. We must educate our people in white man's The cast for the Junior Follies has been chosen. ways in order to get fair justice, and you must learn The production will be performed on April 12, what you are doing to us. I hope we can still work in 13, and 14. peaceful ways to get our freedom. But when you have a society that only seems to listen when fear CHARACTERS tactics are used; like shaking the little man or burning down the B.I.A. building, then violence Prince - Ian McFawn Dave Butter (Wall Flower) - Pat Teyker Primrose may be inevitable. We are sick and tired of the run Frog - Bill Corley Andy Eglsedar around. We may have to form a small army again. Steve Heemann Itwill mean our annihilation, and those who are left ~:~~he~~t~tga~rt~~~k FOUR O'CLOCKS will be terribly persecuted. But I will choose to die Lazy Daisy - Anne Stubblefield ~~~~rdg~son for my people, rather than see them suffer forever. Susan - Louise Mattocks Karen Elmore "There are no alternatives for us now. I hope that Touch - me - not - Marla Weinstein Denise Hovermale the next Administration will be far more sym- Shrinking Violet - Harriet Lowry pathetic to poor people than the present one. But the Flower #1 - Roberta Schrom CHORUS & WEEDS future now is bleak, stormy, dark and cold. Flower /12 - Maria Petrucci Dennis Kirkwood Flower 113 - Lee McNamee Mark Steel "I offer three solutions for the Indian people. Mr. Moss - Michael Johnston Mike Bricker One: we must exercise our sovereignty. Now we Poppy - Dave Cole Mike Deener don't even feel that we are citizens. Many Indians Mum· Mary Catherine De Rose Belinda Bond don't want to be 'American Citizens,' but we. must Witch - Cathy Nelson Chip Rouse utilize the power our official citizenship gives us.' Cat - Demetrius Mallios Sandra Shirven Two: we must resist the effective divide and Cockscomb - Cathy Dudderar Laurie Ennis conquer method of Government control. We must ~;;~!;ti~!O~YLi~~~C~~~~lr Jameson Deakyne TUna Liiv unite against Government oppression. We must Pussy Wellow - Sharon Wood Lee Ellen Griffin realize that we have a movement and a cause. And Honeysuckle - Jerry Kurek ~~Jl~~incJier three: We must look to our past; the old religion, Scarlet Sage - Doug Paulson Molly Whitworth the old traditions, as the strength of our people Jack-in-the-pulpit - Rich Blucher Charlotte Lent today. Gedner - Dave "Wimpy" Volrath Betsy Altfather "Solutions will only come from us. If white people Begonia - Nellie Arrington can learn to leave us alone, they can do their thing Hibiscus - Jim Massey ~u::ie S~~~~ier and we can do ours with no problems. Everyone has Roseanne Serio a right to live. We recognize this, and we want white ~:~:;I~OR~n C~~~d~f~ght Judy Gardner people to recognize this also." "wcstalgta' Villagers -Dan Bitzel, Susan Armiger, Kristin O'Concr This is only one of the cries for liberation. What Kathv Thornhill STAGE-SET -COSTUMES Dennis Belindo said, what the Liberation course is CHORUS & VILLAGERS Bill Thomas teaching, should change some lives. As a college Sue Fowler Don Ehman community, we are involved with our own world. Linda Sixx Linda Gary Wooten How can anyone imagine war, oppression or Norma Hamilton ~i~~I~~Wser poverty when looking over the peaceful hills of Kathy Blazek Carroll County? But we must. Hopefully, courses Karen Gaither ~h:lo:~~ar like 317 will produce forty people who will be con- ~~c.r ~~~~aUgh Cathy Dudderar fronted with the reality of a suffering humanity; Sandy Stokes Chip Rouse causing them to respond with an opening of self and Lynn Smithdeal John Clayborne an agreement to help wherever they are, in Lyn McBride Barb Dummond whatever vocation they are planning. This is a Carol MacDonald Willi~ Witter painful childbirth, demanded by the sanctity of Darlene Eiford Greta Heirmann human life. Donna French Ben Jenkins _:...It.l et all '-_ I:::__